Like Thomas Chambers, Charlene Boyer Lewis, Jon Sterngass and others, Gassan looks to the elite social milieu that coalesced around a small number of supposedly health-promoting mineral springs as the origins of an extensive American affinity for leisure travel and tourism.

The natural hot mineral spring resort of Nabe al-Hayat (Fountain of Life), located in Jbab Village in Daraa, southern Syria, has been acquiring an increasing fame for the various therapeutic services it offers.

In this spirit, health institutions have begun in recent years to market themselves as a health tourism destination, and quickly ranked second after France in mineral spring water treatment, and second among African nations in sea water treatment.

The Bario highlands have long been known to be goiter-free and to have high-iodine well water and high-iodine, locally produced salt boiled down from mineral spring water; the salt was traded regionally.

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